Digital Ethics

A new Facebook Live show lets users vote to kill or save someone else’s relationship

A researcher finds more than 460 models have the hidden software pre-installed.

Privacy advocates warn feds about surreptitious cross-device tracking.

Angry users assailed Slice Intelligence and its service Unroll.me, which scans email inboxes, after it was reported that Uber had used the company’s data.

Adobe and Intel were also faced with court case in which lawyers sought $9bn over alleged collusion

An adult webcam site claims to be the first ever to use facial recognition technology to help users find "sex doppelgängers" of people they know. Individuals can upload photographs of anyone's face...

Dopamine Labs aims to give any app the same addictive power that Facebook, Zynga and others have spent millions to perfect. Now, armed with $1 million in seed funding and some initial data that they’re experiments in mind control actually work, Dopamine Labs is spending money to boost its staff and sales and marketing efforts to bring more apps in on its brain science.

Uber is taking down blog posts that show how it tracks users' one-night stands -- and the prevalence of prostitutes in your favorite pick-up location.

Google Docs users are reporting various bugs today that result in them getting locked out of their documents. Most of the issues center on a mysterious Terms of Service violation. The reports...

Sixteen-year-old Sarah* shoved the computer away. “I’m not doing this,” she said, shifting her disdain between the counselor and the online course in ...

German request for data audit reveals the web giant 'accidentally' stored payload information from open networks

The Silicon Valley giant says it deleted the accounts of the Chechen Republic’s tyrant — followed by 4 million people — because the U.S. government required it to do so.

After demonstrating how Facebook Messenger was collecting user geo-location data by default with Facebook Messenger to thousands of users, Facebook responded to the public and media pressure by releasing an updated product within 9 days.

After ProPublica revealed last year that Facebook advertisers could target housing ads to whites only, the company announced it had built a system to spot and reject discriminatory ads. We retested and found major omissions.

Are you using a period tracking app for your menstrual cycle? Be careful! While you’re tracking your cycle, health data, moods, even sexual activity and medications, most apps out there are tracking YOU.  Most fertility apps (as well as fitness, health and diet apps - and any free app th

Leila has two identities, but Facebook is only supposed to know about one of them.

Employee wellness firms and insurers are working with employers to mine data on the drugs employees use, how they shop, and even whether they vote, to predict their individual health needs and recommend treatments.

At a launch party in Chicago, Uber allegedly treated guests to the whereabouts and movements of 30 "notable" Uber users in New York in real time without those users' permission.

Has any other company had a more batshit year than Uber? In lieu of a traditional report card, I briefly considered just copying and pasting text from the Book of Revelation into this article....

A case of a mistaken counterfeit leaves woman without cash or the pre-WWII item

Here's why these attacks present a much higher risk for civilian casualties and provoke significant anti-U.S. sentiment.

Samsung's SmartTVs are transmitting your voice commands to a third party.

In Australia pilot effort, company will ‘hash’ images, converting them into digital fingerprints that prevent any other attempts to upload the same pictures

Startup tells customer “Your unit will be denied server connection.”

A San Francisco-based Facebook data scientist studied HTML code on 3.7 million profiles to find that 71% of users type comments and posts but don't submit them.